Exhibit tells about Confederate POWs

1:37 AM,
May 2, 2014

Jean and Gerry Gregg look at artifacts in a display case while touring the new Hayes Presidential Center's exhibit, 'Privy to History: Civil War Prison Life Unearthed,' which opened Thursday and runs through Jan. 4.

Written by

Hannah Camille Bealer
Staff writer

The new Johnson's Island Civil War Prison exhibit at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center tells the story of thousands of captured Confederate officers who lived on the island from 1862 to 1865. Dozens of artifacts, letters and photographs paint a picture for museum-goers of life in the prison.

The exhibit opened to the public Thursday and will continue through January 2015.

Interest in the prison started in 2005 with a smaller exhibit that displayed artifacts unearthed by Dr. Dave Bush, an anthropology professor and director of Heidelberg University's Center for Historic and ...